GRADUATE STUDENTS	SPECIALTY AREA	DISSERTATION TOPIC	ADVISOR
Emanuel Boussios Graduation Date: 8/2008	Criminology/Delinquency, Peace, War, World Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Criminal Justice, Political Sociology	Public Opinion and War: Attitudes Towards War in the United States from 1950-2008	Stephen Cole
Monique Centrone	Sociology of Technology/Science of Technology Studies, Cultural Theory	Using a combination of empirical and qualitative analyses, the dissertation explores cultural and institutional aspects of how the biotechnology industry developed within the global arena.	Michael Schwartz
Carol Lindquist	Sociology of Family, Gender, Food, Consumption, Qualitative Methods	Feeding Power: The Household Meals Project	Javier Auyero and Ken Feldman as co-advisor
Matthew Mahler	Cultural Sociology, Political Sociology, Research Methods, Theory	The dissertation, Homo Politicus: On Politics and Passions, examines the culture of professional politics and looks at how political agents are inculcated with the categories, capacities and passions for political life through their daily routines and rituals.	Javier Auyero
Etsuko Maruoka Graduation Date: 8/2008	Gender, Race, Migration, Ethnography	Negotiation of Gender, Race and Religiosity Among Young Muslim American Women	Javier Auyero
Anna Sher	Economic Sociology, Inequality, Globalization, Quantitative Methods, Comparative/Historical Sociology	Examines the role of the state in development of the large business corporate institution and provides a historical and comparative assessment of contemporary corporate capitalism in Russia.	Michael Schwartz
Tyson Smith	Gender, Culture, Media, Sports, Social Psychology, Women's Studies, Teaching	Fighting for Recognition: Identity and the Attraction to Performing Violence	Michael Kimmel
Zheng Zhao	China, Labor and Work, Stratification, Poverty, Urban	Inventing the Unemployed: Workers, State, and Stratification Structure in Urban China	Eileen Otis & Andrea Tyree as co-chair